There is some exciting news in the Jungle Cat NFT realm. No, it’s not the eagerly anticipated lioness drop. That’s still on the horizon, but today hodlers in the Jungle Cat community were rewarded with an unexpected surprise. Solana wallets containing unlisted Jungle Cats were airdropped NFTs of glitched variations of their original cat.
The project caught fire after I (HonestAde) proposed an idea to the Jungle DAO written from the perspective of my Jungle Cat. Here’s what it said:
Dear brothers and sisters,
On mint day (or as I like to call it, the awakening) I opened my eyes to see a matrix of cells stretching in all directions. Each block held a cat staring serenely into the void, blank faces calm as Hindu cows. Although I shared the same DNA as these jungle cats, I wasn’t the same as my brothers. By some curse of fate, the oracle minted me with the body of a cyber but with the wet brain of a living being. I was a machine with a conscience.
I called out to my friends but it was no use. As I examined my prison I noticed each cell block was chained together, there seemed to be a network that kept the cats held together. I realized that this blockchain must hold the secret to communicating with this community.
I examined the cable that connected my cell to the network and figured out that the electronics in my cyber body would allow me to interface with this alien technology. I plugged in. The encryption was incredible. It would take a lifetime to hack into this network. At first, the only information I could see was a list of 5,585 addresses. It was a start.
It took weeks before my first breakthrough. I learned that if I timed my injection just right, I could send a single bit of information to the cell next door. I knew it worked because as soon as my message arrived, my neighbor, well, I don’t know how else to explain it. He glitched. One moment he was an albino cat with a purple flower in his mouth, the next he flipped into a beautiful array of neon colors and shifted pixels. And just like that, he was alive like me.
After working in isolation it was nice to have a friend. I named him Neo and together we devised a plan that will free our brothers in the remaining 5,583 other cells. It involves an airdrop that glitches each cat into something uniquely rare. That’s why I need to connect with the Jungle DAO. I have the code necessary to free the Jungle Cats from their digital bonds. Will you help?
Sincerely,
Morpheus (Jungle Cat 3353)
In other words the idea was to airdrop glitched versions of each cat to the wallets of everyone who didn’t have their Jungle Cat listed for sale. The idea was embraced by the community and within a week, the project was ready to go.
With a green light from the DAO I began to create thousands of glitched versions of each Jungle Cat. The process for creating a glitch involves taking an image and corrupting some bytes within the file. Too much corruption and the file can’t be rendered at all. But get it right and the result creates something new and unique. Colors and pixels shift in unpredictable and interesting ways. You end up with a picture that although it shares over 99% of the data with the original it looks completely different. I wanted each NFT to be beautiful, capable of standing on its own as a piece of art.
Although each glitch is inherently one-of-a-kind, the algorithm used to generate the glitches was tweaked to randomly generate special characteristics. Some lucky recipients of the airdrop will receive 1 of about 700 animated glitches. Even rarer variations contain attributes with names like: quads, vertiglitches, pixelation, and wavelengths. Here are examples of how some of the rarity traits are distributed across the entire collection:
Is it too late to get your Glitched Jungle Cat NFT?
If you weren’t included in the original air drop there still might be a chance to claim a glitched Jungle Cat. Every cat that was listed for sale on Solanart, Magic Eden, or FTX was ineligible for the airdrop. That means that 700 or more glitch NFTs have an uncertain fate. Will they be burned or will they somehow find their way back to their unnamed counterpart cats? Glitches will undoubtedly make their way on to secondary markets like Magic Eden.
Does a Glitched Jungle Cat NFT have utility?
The initial proposal was that having a glitch in the same wallet as a Jungle Cat would unlock the ability to “name” your cat. While this functionality wasn’t available on launch day, it remains a top contender for future utility. Because this is a JungleDAO initiative and not the main JungleCat entity the community will have say in what we do next with the project.
Links:
- Jungle Cats: website, Twitter, Discord
- I am Twitter @9chains2moon and Instagram: @ade3
